The Cross And The Sword: The Rise of The Papacy In The Middle Ages

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Charlemagne: The Father of Europe

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My name is Maximus Tomus Hollandus, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius.

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Napoleon was about 5 feet 6 inches (1,69 meters), so slightly above average height at the time. This myth stemmed from a difference between British and French measurements (pre-metric system).

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One does not simply do a series on Charlemagne.

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Nice to see you dealing with my 34th Great-Grandfather (according to a certain genealogical site). (But then again this is probably true for most of us.) But where did the patina of my nobility go? Is it like homeopathy? Just a trace element of genetics? But it certainly does make me pay more attention to history!

[@devilsadvocate7389]

Literally every European and most of Americans, South Americans, and Australians today can be traced back to Charlemagne.

[@jakegarvin7634]

Charles the Hammer was my father! Well, not that one, but he was a dude named Charles who had a hammer. Brought it everywhere...it was kind of annoying...

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Cousin!!

[@excellentcomment]

Dominic you are so right I know the name Charlene as well as I know my own and yet I know zippity doo dah about him. Thank you & Tom for giving us this.

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[@william6223]

Please add any extra information about Irminsul, the great pillar chopped down in 772 CE, when Charlemagne and the Frank's defeated the Saxons, claiming Suzerainty? It was legend that Odin hung from Irminsul to learn the Branch Language.

[@bookaufman9643]

I haven't read anything about the northward traverse of the Pope into the land of the Franks but wouldn't the Lombards have been up there in Northern Italy blocking the way? I guess you could travel by night or somehow travel around them.

[@william6223]

I thought the Lombards were papal loyalists

[@bookaufman9643]

@william6223 well it sounds like the pope wasn't down with the Lombards.

[@william6223]

​@@bookaufman9643I listened to the whole series, and wrote too soon. Thanks! I am learning

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[@donde2k]

I have a question: Ravenna fell to the Lombards in 751. Venice was founded (among many dates proffered) in 697. So what was Venice’s relationship to Constantinople and to Rome in 751?

[@HughSmith-r1g]

I love the European history and this is such an interesting area. Can you please explain how records of Charlemagne remain but the dark ages were in full swing. How much did they know of the Roman Empire at this point as in books I have read the Roman Empire is a mystery to the tribal leaders of Europe?

[@griffindault]

What do you mean by the tribal leaders of Europe? Like maybe some people around the Baltic, in deep Scandinavia, northern Germany and like European Steppe may have been unaware of the Roman Empire but any leader of any significant area in basically all of Western Europe except for north of Hardians Wall would be familiar with the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire literally still existed just the Eastern half the whole time. Calling it the Byzantine Empire only started in the 16th Century and was known as the Roman Empire for about 1100 years from the fall of the western empire until the 16th century. It literally controlled a good chunk of Italy until 200 years after the death of Charlamange. From the 9th to 13th century the Byzantines had something called the Varangian Guard which was a special unit made up entire of Norsemen then later Normans and Anglo-Saxons. These are just a couple examples of how it would be impossible for the Roman Empire to be a mystery to most of Europe. You are going to have to be more specific about who and when if you want a more exact answer about the extent of their knowledge of the Roman Empire and how they had such.

[@WinstonGriffith-o9r]

Clearly Peppin made Charlie retire, surprised you didn't propose this hypothesis

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We've heard from Einhard, but will we hear also from Notker the Stammerer?

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[@Amarant8]

Great series!!! How many other barbarian kings the Pope managed to ruin with this tactical move of alliance with a more powerful ruler ?

[@edinburgh1578]

Stupid question: what language did the Franks speak? And is it the root of the expression "lingua franca"? Charlemagne spoke both proto German and Latin.

[@jesseskipper3550]

They spoke Frankish, which, I have read, is the ancestor of modern Dutch/Flemish. Or perhaps it's a relative or off-shoot of proto-Dutch. Can't vouch personally but sounds right.

[@edinburgh1578]

@@jesseskipper3550 Thanks, it would then also be the ancestor of modern German.

[@griffindault]

Its kinda the root of Lingua franca. The phrase comes from Mediterranean Lingua Franka a language used by merchants in the Mediterranean that wasn't any of their native language but one they could all communicate with. By then Frankish had come to mean western European in general which kind of obviously comes from the Franks proper so while the phrase does basically mean language of the Franks it's etymology isn't connected to the actual language the Franks spoke.

[@edinburgh1578]

@@griffindault Many thanks for that explanation. I imagine western Europe at that time would have been awash with any number of local dialects. Some vulgar Latin, some proto Germanic and some completely sui generis such as Basque. At some point Frankish must have split into the latinised western version and precursor of French and the Germanic eastern version.

[@griffindault]

@edinburgh1578 you would think that would be the case but French would be in the Germanic language group if that were the case and it's still a Romance language. So instead of the precursor to French being a latinised Germanic language it was a Germanified latin language

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16:05 dark times

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I MUST ASK ... Why is Tom rugged up like a POLAR traveller, did someone turn the heat off in your study den? His teeth are not chattering.

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Tom just rolled out id bed😊

[@excellentcomment]

Charlemagne

[@GediminasStrum]

I miss good old inquisition. And times when popes werent socialists.

[@kaloarepo288]

Pope's became socialists in the 19th century with that papal encyclical about worker's rights -led to setting up of Catholic worker's parties like the Christian Democrats in Italy -they governed in post World War II Italy and even in Australia we had the DLP!

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Stammering

[@vlasisv3415]

Disgusting title. Obvious Saxon propaganda

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It's amazing what a pile of lies we live on.

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Ahahahaha true descendants of Rome are Serbians and Greeks and Mediterranean Arabs